CONNECTICUT. 87 



feodinfT ^-tiifFs, 1908; and 11, Eighth rei)ort of the state entomologist, 

 1908. 



The income of the station during the joast fiscal year was as follows: 



United States appropriation, Hatch Act $7,500.00 



United States appropriation, Adams Act 5,500.00 



Stato ai)propriation 17, 500. 00 



Individuals 5, 895. 88 



Fees 8, 970. 02 



Farm products 205. 1.3 



.Miscollanoons 740. G3 



Total 4G. 311.0G 



A report of the receipts and expenditures for the United State.s 

 funds has been rendered in accordance with the schedules prescribed 

 by this Department and has been approved. 



The results of the work pursued at the Connecticut State Station 

 are of nuich scientific interest and of considerable economic value to 

 the agriculture of the State. The station is making good use of the 

 funds at its disposal. 



Storrs Agricultural Experim^ent Station, Storrs. 



Dei)artnient of the Connecticut .Vgricultural College. 



L. A. Ci.ixTox. M. S.. Director. 



The lines of work for the past fiscal year were essentially the same 

 as those previously reported, only one new project having been inau- 

 gurated. A greenhouse was added to the equipment for work in 

 plant breeding. 



Encouraging progress was made in the Adams fund projects al- 

 ready under way. and as a new project the study of the white diar- 

 rhea of chicks was taken up. The object of this new work, which is 

 carried on in cooperation with Dr. L. F. Rettger, of Yale University, 

 is to determine the source of infection, to ascertain the organism 

 producing the disease and its method of propagation, and to discover 

 means of prevention and treatment. The experiments in manufac- 

 turing foieign types of cheese carried on in cooperation with the 

 Dairy Division of the Department of Agriculture have been continued 

 with interesting and valuable results, and a bulletin recording in 

 part the data thus far .secured was issued near the close of the year. 



The sources of fidrtcrium hicth aricli in milk were definitely de- 

 termined in the year's work, and this result is considered as being of 

 much practical as well as of scientific importance. A bulletin recently 

 pui)lisl)ed describes the work in detail and jioints out that the source 

 of the organism is animal secretion and excretion. Tiie mangers 

 of the cows as well as the cows themselves were found to be the most 

 abundant source. In the line of plant breeding, problems of heredity 



